Save Article

Mexico Detains Former Top Drug Cop

By

David Luhnow and

Jose de Cordoba

Updated Nov. 22, 2008 12:01 a.m. ET

MEXICO CITY -- Mexico's former anti-drug czar has been detained in a widening corruption scandal that suggests a large percentage of top agents assigned to fight the drug trade here have instead been cooperating with cocaine cartels.

No&eacute; Ram&iacute;rez, who headed Mexico's elite anti-drug agency until August, accepted a bribe of $450,000 to leak information to a drug gang, Mexico's Attorney General Eduardo Medina Mora alleged on Friday. Mr. Ram&iacute;rez, who since August has been Mexico's acting envoy...